M3Planning

A forward-thinking city goes above and beyond to promote a green future

Company: City of Reno, Nevada

Industry: US Municipality — Nevada

With a population of over 211,000, Reno is the largest city in Northern Nevada. It is located in the southern part of Washoe County, nestled on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The City has a Council-Manager form of government with five Council members representing wards and one Council member elected at large for staggered four-year terms.

Situation Need: One of the key priorities of the current City Council is to enhance efforts to reduce the city’s impact on the environment. Part of this goal required encouraging residents and businesses to join in this effort. The city created a Green Summit, to collect citizen feedback.

Service: Strategic Planning Consulting

Deliverables:

• Preparation to facilitate community input sessions.
• Professional facilitators to moderate and graphically record community sessions.
• Facilitation of an effective meeting to identify and discuss the range of sustainable strategies, programs and actions for developing a City-wide sustainability action plan.

Approach: For this project M3 Planning provided a facilitated means for the community to discuss sustainable strategies, programs and actions that the city could consider incorporating into a City of Reno sustainability action plan.

Result: Meeting facilitators moderated and graphically recorded community discussions and prioritized top actions. The project included a written summary report for submission to the City of Reno. (See http://www.cityofreno.com/Index.aspx?page=1589.)